Morning journal and courier., 1887-09-05


 Utah say that the Mormon women are cast extremes of fashion.
 The Illinois Supreme court comes in to- morrow and it's opinion in the case of the condemned anarchists is awaited with much interest. If the sentence is affirmed the case will be carried to the United States Su- preme court.
 The International congress of the medical profession to be held in Washington this week will be a big affair. There will be three thousand delegates and visitors from every part of the civilized world, and six thousand papers are to be read.
 A Russian engineer, M Coslowiehe, claims to have invented a navigable balloon. To avoid betraying his secret he has had the different parts of his apparatus constructed in different countries of Europe. The aerial machine in question is said to be 200 feet long.
 Henry George is 8 consistent man. He declines to have anything to do with plan to raise $10, ,OO0 to provide coal and soup for
 
 that his business is to abolish poverty and not to relieve the poor. Moral: Subscribe for Georges paper.
 The distillers are complaining because they have lost much of their foreign trade, the chief cause for which they attribute to unfa- vorable commercial treaties. A few years ago the exports of alcohol amounted to be- tween 100000 and 250,000 barrels year, but now they are not 10 per cent. of this. In the meantime there has been an over- production of spirits.
 Henry Clews is giving out many opinions nowadays. One of them is that the Saturday half holiday law is going to play havoc with business in New York city and State, as it cuts out one entire month of working days. The expenses of business establishments for rent. clerks, etc., go right along, and with only Il months in the year instead of 12 for production the burden bears heavily. MT. Clews expresses the belief that eff the Satur- day half holiday movement was to be voted upon by the day laborers they would vote against it, as most of them would prefer to be at work and receive a full days pay in- stead of being at play-which is attended with expense-and receive only half days pay on each Saturday as now"
 Mrs. s. c. Eccleston, who returned re- gently to the Argentine Republic, is one oi sixteen women teachers who went from this country about four years ago at the urgent request of the Argentine Minister of Educa ton and were placed in charge of public schools in the several provinces. The fact | that all were Protestants caused them to be regarded with some suspicion at first in g | country where the Roman Catholic is the prevalent as well as the State religion; but | it soon came to be understood that thell I teaching was purely secular, and the schools 1 are we'll attended by all classes. Mrs. Eccle l ston speaks with enthusiasm of the success of their educational work, and of the gener- ous treatment the North American teachers received from the government.
 The annual town elections in this State oc cur on Monday, October 3. According t' the new law registrars must meet this yea not later than Thursday, September 18th when they shall place on the list "to b
 made" the names of those by whom or il
 whose behalf claim is made to either regis
 trar, in the manner provided by law, tha
 they will be entitled to be made electors be
 fore the day of the meeting. Such lists ar
 to be prepared according to the provisions c
 the law. In towns of over 5000 inhabitant
 the application to be made elector mus